Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.

It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the left­overs, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the "holding" cells.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.

I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.